Solastalgia

where the sea is now we would meet out in the sand

where that busy and sorrowful answer to questions was most clear

we broke up leaving it so painful a thing to be sunk

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 January 1665.

Dave Bonta

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